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DATE: Thursday, March 21, 2013 CONTACT: Doug Drabik OPPONENT: UNLV (NCAA EAST REGION SECOND-ROUND) OFFICE: 510-642-3611 | CELL: 510-517-9059 EMAIL: [email protected] 32 PLACE: HP PAVILION (18,549)| San Jose, Calif. TWITTER: @CalMensBball | FACEBOOK: Cal Mens Basketball GAME TIME: 4:27 p.m. (PT) SCHEDULE AND RESULTS CAL MEETS UNLV IN NCAA TOURNAMENT SECOND-ROUND MATCH-UP THURSDAY 20-11 Overall | 12-6 Pac-12 BERKELEY – California earned its fourth NCAA Tournament selection Television .......................TruTV 11-5 Home | 6-5 Away | 3-1 Neutral in fi ve seasons under head coach Mike Montgomery as the No. Play-By-Play ..Brian Anderson NOVEMBER 12 seed Golden Bears will face No. 5 seed UNLV in an East Region second-round game on Thursday in San Jose, Calif. The contest will Analyst ............... Dan Bonner 6 San Francisco State (Exhib.) W, 89-80 tip off at 4:27 p.m. (PT) from HP Pavilion and be televised on TruTV. Sideline ............. Marty Snider 11 CSU Bakersfi eld (Pac-12) W, 78-65 13 Pepperdine (Pac-12) W, 79-62 Led by Pac-12 Player of the Year and All-American Allen Crabbe, 16 at Denver (ROOT) W, 72-61 Cal enters the NCAA Tournament 20-11 overall after fi nishing in 22 vs. Drake^ (ESPN2) W, 73-70 the top-four in the conference regular-season standings for the 23 vs. Georgia Tech^ (ESPN2) W, 68-57 fi fth-straight season. Cal is the only team in the Pac-12 to record Radio ............Cal IMG Network 25 vs. Pacifi c^ (ESPN2) W, 78-58 double-digit victories or place in the top four in the league in Bay Area...... NewsTalk 910 AM Online ..CalBears.com/AllAccess DECEMBER each of the last fi ve seasons since head coach Mike Montgomery Play-By-Play .....Roxy Bernstein 2 at Wisconsin (BTN) L, 81-56 took over the program. Analyst ..................Todd McKim 9 No. 18/21 UNLV (ESPNU) L, 76-75 15 No. 13/16 Creighton (Pac-12) L, 74-64 GOLDEN BEAR NOTES 18 UCSB (Pac-12) W, 68-59 • Cal is making its second-straight and 18th all-time appearance in the NCAA Tournament. After 22 Prairie View A&M (Pac-12) W, 85-53 going 30 years between appearances, the Bears have earned a berth in the NCAA Tournament 29 Harvard (Pac-12) L, 67-62 13 times since 1990. The winner of Thursday’s Cal-UNLV game will face the winner of Syracuse-Mon- JANUARY tana Saturday, with the victor going to the East Regional games in Washington, D.C. next week. 3 at UCLA* (FSN) L, 79-65 • Thursday’s game will be a rematch from a Dec. 9 contest in Haas Pavilion between the Bears 5 at USC* (FSN) W, 72-64 and Runnin’ Rebels. Then-No. 21 UNLV picked up the 76-75 victory when Quintrell Thomas grabbed 9 Washington* (ESPN2) L, 62-47 an airball and scored with 1.2 seconds remaining. Allen Crabbe paced the Bears with 18 points. 12 Washington State* (Pac-12) W, 67-54 • Cal is 19-17 all-time in NCAA Tournament games, including a national championship in 1959. The 19 at Stanford* (FSN) L, 69-59 Bears own an 11-6 mark in opening-round games. 24 at Utah* (Pac-12) W, 62-57 27 at Colorado* (FSN) L, 81-71 • Cal has earned a postseason berth all fi ve years under Mike Montgomery, also advancing to the 31 Oregon State* (ESPNU) W, 71-68 second round of the National Invitation Tournament in 2011. Including an NIT berth in 2008 before Montgomery arrived, the Bears have advanced to the postseason a school-record six years in a row. FEBRUARY 2 No. 10/12 Oregon* (FSN) W, 58-54 • The 108 total wins so far in Mike Montgomery’s fi rst fi ve seasons mark the winningest fi ve-year 7 at Arizona State* (Pac-12) L, 66-62 stretch since 1960 when Pete Newell completed his fi nal fi ve seasons with 110 wins. 10 at No. 7/7 Arizona* (Pac-12) W, 77-69 14 UCLA* (ESPN2) W, 76-63 • Junior guard Allen Crabbe became the third Golden Bear in the past four seasons to be select- ed as the Pac-12 Player of the Year in a vote by the league’s head coaches. Crabbe fi nished 17 USC* (FSN) W, 76-68 the season as the regular-season scoring champion and owns an 18.7 points-per-game average. 21 at No. 23/23 Oregon* (ESPN2) W, 48-46 Crabbe was also named a Third Team All-American by The Sporting News. 23 at Oregon State* (Pac-12) W, 60-59 28 Utah* (ESPNU) W, 64-46 • Crabbe was a First Team All-Pac-12 selection for the second-consecutive season, while Justin Cobbs garnered Second Team All-Pac-12 laurels in 2013. MARCH 2 Colorado* (ESPNU) W, 62-46 • The junior guard duo of Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs is the highest scoring pair in the Pac-12 6 Stanford* (ESPN2) L, 83-70 with a combined average of 34.2 points per game. Crabbe leads the Pac-12 and ranks 35th 14 vs. Utah% (Pac-12) L, 79-69 nationally at 18.7 points per game, while Cobbs ranks eighth in the conference at 15.5 points per contest. The pair has combined to score1,059 of Cal’s 2,094 points (50.6 percent) this season. 21 vs. UNLV# (TruTV) 4:27 p.m. • Allen Crabbe, who was named one of 30 candidates for the Naismith National Player of the Home games in Bold Year Award, enters the NCAA Tournament as the Pac-12’s active career scoring leader and 10th * Denotes Pac-12 Conference Game in school history with 1,510 career points in 96 career games. He ranks 12th on the school’s single- ^ DIRECTV Classic Champions (Anaheim, Calif.) season scoring list with 580 points so far this season. % Pac-12 Tournament (Las Vegas, Nev.) # NCAA Tournament 2nd Round (San Jose, Calif.) • Allen Crabbe and Justin Cobbs are joined in the line-up by sophomore F David Kravish, freshman G Tyrone Wallace and junior F Richard Solomon. Cal has used this lineup each of the last 15 games. PROBABLE STARTERS ## Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Yr. PPG RPG 2012-13 Notes 35 Richard Solomon F 6-10 235 Jr. 8.4 6.6 Ninth in Pac-12, averaging 1.2 blocks per game 45 David Kravish F 6-9 221 So. 8.1 6.9 5th in Pac-12 with 1.7 bpg./11th in league in rebounding 23 Allen Crabbe G 6-6 210 Jr. 18.7 6.0 Pac-12 regular-season scoring champion/35th in nation 1 Justin Cobbs G 6-3 190 Jr. 15.5 4.8(A) Leads Pac-12 in FT% (.861)/4th in assists (4.8)/8th in scoring Tyrone Wallace G 6-4 186 Fr. 7.2 4.5 21 starts/double-double vs. Colorado (16 pts. 11, reb.) OFF THE BENCH 34 Robert Thurman F 6-10 265 Sr. 4.5 3.6 Leading scorer off the bench/Averages 16.8 minutes per game 12 Brandon Smith G 6-0 180 Sr. 2.6 2.0(A) Avg.18 min. off bench/returned from head injury 14 games ago 24 Ricky Kreklow G 6-6 210 So. 4.0 2.4 Saw fi rst action in 17 games (foot injury) March 6 vs. Stanford 15 Bak Bak F 6-9 240 Sr. 1.5 1.1 Season-high 6 points in 6 minutes in win at No. 7 Arizona 21 Jeff Powers G 6-7 223 Jr. 1.3 0.3 Has appeared in 21 games overall, including six of last 10 BERKELEY.REPRESENT. GAME 32 | NCAA TOURNAMENT CONNECT WITH CAL MEN’S BASKETBALL CAL SPORTS NETWORK CAL COACHES CORNER All California men’s basketball games are broadcast on KKSF The Cal IMG Sports Network hosts a live weekly radio show each NewsTalk 910 AM in the San Francisco Bay Area with Roxy Bernstein Monday at 6 p.m. PT on the Cal men’s basketball fl agship station— (Play-by-play) and Todd McKim (Analyst). Due to scheduling NewsTalk 910AM. Tune in, weekly, to hear head coach Mike confl icts, former Golden Bear Jon Wheeler and Assistant Athletic Montgomery and selected players with host Todd McKim. Fans can Director for Basketball Development, Jay John, will serve on the also listen, live, via CalBears.com All-Access. broadcast team during select games throughout the season. GOLDEN BEAR SPORTS Additional stations on the Cal IMG Sports Network include: Fans and media can view and purchase California men’s basketball photos at www.GoldenBearSports.com, the offi cial photographer KKSF Radio 910 AM San Francisco (Flagship) of Cal Athletics. Follow @GBSports on Twitter (www.Twitter.com) to KESP Radio 970 AM Modesto, Calif. receive instant notifi cations when new albums and galleries are KAHI Radio 950 AM Sacramento, Calif. posted to the website. KION Radio 1460 AM Salinas, Calif. CAL SOCIAL NETWORKING In addition, Cal fans can listen to all the action, online, through Fans and media can now follow the Golden Bears on social CalBears.com/All-Access. Selected games will also be broadcast networking websites. Cal men’s basketball (CalMensBBall) is on on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. CALBEARS.COM www.Facebook.com/CalMensBBall All Cal releases, recaps, results, statistics, box score, schedules, as www.Twitter.com/CalMensBBall well as coach and player biographies can be found at CalBears. www.Youtube.com/CalMensBball com.